The grass, they say, is greener on the other side, and today, the
snow was better too.
Part two of the Big Freeze failed to materialise around here. It was
more a case of the Big Thaw with the snow melting in the midday sun.
By the time I finished work at 2pm this afternoon, there was no longer
snow on the prime shooting locations around town. There was,
admittedly, plenty on the mountains but after writing about
foolhardy motorists who had got stuck on mountain roads and
had to be rescued by local farmers, I decided I was sticking to the
flat and gritted roads. There wasn't much snow to be seen
by the time I got to the pretty village of Carlingford so this
view of the setting sun lighting the snow-clad Mournes on
the other side of the Lough was the best I could come up with.